Sarah Churchwell

The Road to West Egg

Thomas Powers, 4 July 2013

In October 1922, Fitzgerald moved his family to Great Neck, Long Island and over the next 18 months the novel acquired a Midwestern background, a poor boy-rich girl theme, a narrative structure and a...

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